[Python-Dev] b32encode and NUL bytes

[Jeff Epler]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:23:18PM -0700, Pavel Pergamenshchik wrote:
> Hi.
> Is this a feature? I do see b32encode padding the string with NULs first.
> 
> >>> b32decode(b32encode('\x00'))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/base64.py", line 228, in b32decode
>     last = binascii.unhexlify(hex(acc)[2:-1])
> TypeError: Odd-length string

This also seems suspect:
>>> base64.b32encode("\0a")
'ABQQ===='
>>> base64.b32decode(_)
'a'

Jeff
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